Cartoonist and designer, sculptor, painter and printmaker who was born and lived in London. He attended the Royal College of Art and then established a wide reputation as a cartoonist with strong satirical and political interests. Publications worked for included Private Eye, The Daily Mail, Punch and Time magazine. Was involved with the BBC in animation and film direction; designed and directed animated sequences in the film The Wall, 1982; designed for Who’s a Lucky Boy? at Royal Exchange, Manchester, 1984, for Orpheus in the Underworld, English National Opera, 1985, and The Nutcracker, English National Ballet, 2002. Books included Gerald Scarfe’s People, 1966, Gerald Scarfe, 1982, the autobiographical Scarfe by Scarfe, 1986, televised in 1987, and Scarfeland, 1989.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)